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Joyeur

Monday, 20 February 2006

Back at the end of November the company I work for, Joyent,
merged with TextDrive, the web hosting company founded by Dean
Allen and Jason Hoffman, “run by and for people who love publishing
on the web.” From the moment the papers were signed, the combined
company has been kicking all sorts of ass.

Built using Dean’s own Textpattern and sporting a resplendent
design by our own Bryan Bell (who more or less literally inverted
the color scheme of Cameron Moll’s design for Joyent.com),
Joyeur is going to be rather hard to categorize, content-wise.

Quoting from Dean’s introduction:

What’s going on here? Joyeur is a weblog for those of us in the
company — and our friends and family — to air grievances,
borrow cups of sugar, sell used VHS cassettes, doodle, eat a
peach, plan to the last detail the gradual overthrow of hegemony,
cut a rug, and learn from all of you.

That “learn from all of you” part stems from a novel feature called
“comments”, which allows readers of the weblog to append brief
observations, rebuttals, and questions to each post.

[Update: I just realized that we’ve got Textpattern configured to
moderate new comments by default, and but none of us were actually
doing any moderating. So if you left a comment and never saw it appear,
sorry for the delay, but it should be published as of now.]